Human rights are granted by God

I am commenting on "Politicians
trying to remove Second Amendment rights" (Nov. 16). Without
any criticism for the writer, I am mostly interested in the title,
which purports that the constitution grants a right. Also, the
writer criticizes that politicians seek to take guns away from
law-abiding "citizens." (What is a "citizen"?)

Human rights are granted by God, not by the constitution — and
not by government. I claim God-given human rights, and I have no
interest in government-given civil rights or constitutional rights.
Wherever people consent as being a U.S. citizen to enjoy civil or
constitutional rights, one day, these alleged rights can suddenly
vanish as if they had never existed.

I remind people that the Constitution limits the powers of
government, and wherever a human right is mentioned, such as the
writ of habeas corpus, the language states that the government
shall not take that right away. Nowhere does the Constitution claim
to give a right.

My second comment pertains to the common mistake of believing
that rights are given to U.S. citizens. The preamble states that We
the People created the Constitution. It doesn't state "We the
Citizens." A considerable amount of corruption developed and the
federal government was victorious in the Civil War by the time the
14th Amendment defined "citizen." A claim of being a 14th Amendment
creation in legal fiction is not a claim of being a child of
God.